I dragged the screen lock icon back to the desktop no problem but when I rebooted I saw a messge saying that the "pinboard has been updated to XML" or such like and I ended up with a grey background with no Icons.

The taskbar remained/menus remained.
Now Ive reinstated my background image but still missing Icons..is there any way to get the Icons back ?

I dragged the screen lock icon back to the desktop no problem but when I rebooted I saw a messge saying that the "pinboard has been updated to XML" or such like and I ended up with a grey background with no Icons.

Ok, before you try this one again, make a copy of your PuppyPin file in /root/Choices/ROX-filer. Call it PuppyPin-alt for example. Then if it crashes again, just copy your backup to PuppyPin and restart X from the menu under Window Manager.

I have no idea why that would happen. I tried to duplicate it on my system without success. I dragged the Xlock to the desktop, rebooted and when it came back up I couldn't see the Xlock icon. I looked in PuppyPin and it was there, but hidden right behind the Help question mark icon. I moved that icon and Xlock became visible. No errors to speak of. Let me know how you go, when you give it another attempt.

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More info on how it happened...last night I shutdown Puppy for the night now today when I first booted I couldnt see the Xlock Icon so I again dragged it to the desktop and then rebooted to see if this time I could see it. Perhaps this action was somehow what caused the PuppyPin file to reset and become empty.

Most probably the Xlock Icon was hiding behind the help Icon when I first rebooted as you have found.

At the moment Ive dragged it back to desktop and after rebooting found it also hiding behind the help Icon.

Question what is making the Xlock Icon goto the same position on the desktop as the help Icon at every boot..

I like these problems..as they are not major, yet they help me learn more about puppy

Question what is making the Xlock Icon goto the same position on the desktop as the help Icon at every boot...

Somewhere in the desktop configuration, Barry has set default positions for standard desktop icons. I've hunted around and I can't find where that is. I know I can view the exact positions after they are passed to the PuppyPin file, but where those positions are sourced from in Puppy is still a mystery for me.

I haven't tried it, but it might be worth making a backup PuppyPin file and then altering the X and Y location parameters to see if those are honored at the next boot or replaced by the defaults.

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True, but where does it get the physical coordinates for Xlock? I can see that fixPuppyPin calculates a screen position based on videomode, but to my untrained eye the script seems to start with Xlock as a fixed reference point.

What if that Xlock reference point is not there in the current /tmp/PuppyPin or /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin? And how does it then calculate the relative positions of all those other icons from that one point of reference?

This appears to be the key to understanding why icons placed for 2.15CE sometimes "mysteriously" realign themselves on the right screen margin, or why some icons overlay others in the occasional EZpup installation. If I can understand the mechanics here then I might be able to prevent that in future versions of EZpup.

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hey whodo could you put conky or torsmo in the next EZpup with a configuration gui maybe set to the defaults from meanpup I miss haveing my stats displayed on my desktop. the freemem applet doesn't always work correctly anyway (in my case) I wonder if conky works in beryl? I don't know how to make conky transparent either.

hey whodo could you put conky or torsmo in the next EZpup with a configuration gui maybe set to the defaults from meanpup I miss haveing my stats displayed on my desktop. the freemem applet doesn't always work correctly anyway (in my case) I wonder if conky works in beryl? I don't know how to make conky transparent either.

torsmo would be easy to include but not so easy for novices to turn off. I'll have a look at conky to see what's involved.

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leave conky/torsmo off by default and add a simple gui like for icewm or maybe add an option to turn it on or off in the icewm manager itself although that option might be a little obscure or possibly over reach the capabilities of the icewm config gui.

i don't think there is an easy way to deal with desktop icons ... the icons were intended to be dragged to a convenient place on the desktop ... automatic placement of the icons would not be easy, it would be necessary to write software that reads the PuppyPin xml file, makes sense out of the text, figures out the desktop resolution, checks the coordinates of each icon and changes them if necessary, then writes back the configuration changes to the PuppyPin file, if necessary

personally, i backup my PuppyPin file so i can easily restore it, and i also can use alternate desktops, like this:

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